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GEOGllArillCAL ZOOLOGY. 



[I'AKT IV. 



differences in the bill indicate that t,hey are the remains of 

 a larger and more varied family, once inhabiting more extensive 

 land snrfaces in tlie Pacific. 



Family 26.— CCEREBIDvE. (11 Genera, 55 Species.) 



(According to the arrangement of Messrs. Sclatcr and Salvin.) 



The Ccerebidte, or Sugar-birds, are delicate little birds allied to 

 the preceding families, but with extensile honey-sucking tongues. 

 They are almost wholly confined to the tropical parts of America, 

 only one species of CcrtMola ranging so far north as Florida. 

 The followino: is the distribution of the cenera: — 



Diglossa (14 sp.), l*eru and Bolivia to Guiana and Mexico ; 

 Diglossopis (1 sp.), Ecuador to Venezuela ; Orcomancs (1 sp.), 

 Ecuador ; Conirodrnm (6 sp.), Bolivia to Ecuador and Columl)ia ; 

 Heriiidacnis (1 sp.). Upper Amazon and Columbia ; Dacnis (13 

 sp.), Brazil to Ecuador and Costa Eica ; Ccrihidea (2 sp.), Gala- 

 pagos Islands ; CJilonyphancs (2 sp.), Brazil to Central America 

 and Cuba; Cmrcha (4 sp.), Brazil to Mexico; CcrtMola (10 sp.), 

 Amazon to Mexico, West Indies, and Florida; Glossojotila (1 sp.), 

 Jamaica. 



Family 27.— ^TNIOTIl.TIDTE. (18 Genera, 115 Species.) 



(Messrs. Sclater and Salvin are followed for the Neotropical, 

 Baird and Allen for the Nearctic region.) 



The Mniotiltidte, or Wood- warblers, are an interesting group of 

 small and elegant birds, allied to the preceding family and lo the 

 greenlets, and perhaps also to the warblers and tits of Europe. 



